Ho Chi Minh wanted to unite all of Vietnam under his rule. Ngo Dinh Diem, an unpopular leader, was out of touch with the South Vietnamese people. In 1959, Ho Chi Minh declared a war to overthrow ...

Primarily associated with Vietnam Veterans Against the War, to which she gave a lot of ... a series of photos of her sitting at an North Vietnamese Army anti-aircraft battery (one that had ...

suffering and deaths of Vietnamese prisoners in the Vietnam War. But even during the war, many contemporaries knew about the excessive violence inflicted on captured noncombatants. Indeed ...

In his 1999 book Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America ... of fomenting a popular uprising among the South Vietnamese. Consider these words from former Viet Cong senior ...